OCTOBER, 1924       Volume 2   LINCOLN, NEBR   Number 4

 

THE NEBRASKA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY will be glad to consider for Publication in the Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record

FIRST. Manuscript genealogical records of family lines including record of the original settler in America and the first five succeeding generations of his descendants, provided such material has not been completely published elsewhere, or where such material is a correction of matter previously published. References to printed authorities, giving volume and page should when possible accompany such material.

SECOND. Manuscript genealogical records of the last four or five generations, accompanied by a transcription of Bible records or tombstone inscriptions to substantiate the dates of birth, death and marriage.

THIRD. Verified church records including vital records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials.

FOURTH. Verified transcriptions of old burying ground inscriptions.

FIFTH. Verified transcriptions of old wills, provided they have not previously published elsewhere.

SIXTH. Transcriptions of Bible records of single families prior to 1850.

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The Nebraska and Midwest Genealogical Record is a magazine of History and Genealogy. Manuscripts, data and queries upon these subjects are solicited and will be given careful consideration.

Contributors should attach to their manuscripts their full names together with the authority for the statements made therein. Address all correspondence to the managing editor.

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   The following data were found written in a copy of William Penn's "Select Works" published soon after 1720.
 

 SAMUEL EVANS ASH, son of Joshua Ash, Jr., and his wife Abigail, was born Apr. 18th in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy about half an hour after five in the afternoon, Apr. 18th, 1770.
   ALICE ASH, dau. of Joshua Ash, Jr., and Abigail Ash, his wife, born Apr. 28th, 1771, at nine o'clock in the morning.
   ANN ASH, dau. of Joshua Ash and Abigail, his wife, was born Sept. 17th, 1772, half after two in the afternoon.
   JOSHUA ASH, son of Joshua Ash, Jr., was born Jan. 8th, 1774, half a hour before one in the morning.
   ANNA EVANS ASH, dau. of Joshua Ash, Jr., and Abigail, his wife, was born July 23rd, 1776, eleven o'clock in the morning.
   SAMUEL EVANS ASH, son of Joshua Ash, Jr., and Abigail, his wife, was born Apr. 16th, 1779, at fifteen minutes after 2 o'clock in the morning.
   CHARLES ASH, son of Joshua Ash, Jr., and Abigail, his wife, was born Apr. 8th, 1781, about five o'clock in the morning.
   JOSHUA ASH departed this life the 22nd of the 8th month, 1784, and interred in Friend burial ground the 23rd, 1784.
   CALEB ASH, brother of Joshua Ash, departed this life Aug. 24, 1797, at half past eleven o'clock and was the 25th Aug. 1797 interred the same.

Contributed by Mrs. B. G. Miller, Crete, Nebr.

   This record, heretofore unpublished, was taken from family records and notes gathered and carefully compiled by the late Mrs. Harriet Malvina Allison of Beatrice, Nebraska, which are in the possession of her daughter, Miss Mabel Allison of Ontario, California. These records have been arranged for publication, for the first time, by Mrs. Robert J. Kilpatrick of Beatrice, Nebraska, with the permission of Miss Allison.

   The Calhouns of Scotland are descended from the ancient family of the Colquhouns and the Lairds of Luss. The original

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name of Colquhoun is still retained by many in Scotland, England and Ireland, but pronounced Calhoun. Buchanan says in his "Inquiry into the Ancient Genealogy of Ancient Scottish Sir Names" that the ancestor of the sirname of Colquhoun was Humphrey Kilpatrick, in whose favor the Earl of Lennox obtained a charter of the land of Colquhoun in the reign of Alexander II, about 1200.
   The first who assumed the name Colquhoun was Ingraham, or Ingram, the successor of the above named Kilpatrick.
   Humphrey Colquhoun, three or four generations after, married a daughter of Godfrey, Laird of Luss, 1394.
   The Colquhouns and Lairds of Luss were among the most illustrious clans of Scotland. The names of Colhoun, Calhoun and Cahoon have the same origin. The first of the name to emigrate to America, were three brothers, David, James and John. They landed in New York, 1714, and then separated; James went to Maryland, John settled in South Carolina, and David settled in New York, and from thence removed to Stratford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
   David was born in Scotland, not far from the year 1670: the family were rigid Protestants, and he, with his father's family (Non-Conformists) emigrated to Ireland to escape persecution, and settled not far from Londonderry. These persecutions followed them to Ireland, and at length induced three of the family to come to America.
   While residing in Stratford, David married Mrs. Catharine Fairchild, whose maiden name was Coe. By her he had six sons and two daughters. In 1732, he removed to Woodbury, N. W. Purchase, afterwards Indea, and now Washington, Conn.; then having purchased a large tract of land, he resided there until his death, in 1769.
   The sons of David were: Joseph, David, James, John, Ebenezer and George. They all married and settled in Washington, within the limits of a school district, which gave it the name of Calhoun District.
   James, the second brother, settled in Maryland, one of his sons was at one time mayor of Baltimore. Two of the sons of

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John, the third brother, were members of Congress, one of them being a member of the U. S. Senate when he died.
   Joseph, the eldest son of David, lived to the age of 80 years, and died about the year 1810, at Woodbury, Conn.
   The immigrant ancestor of this branch of the Calhoun family, Andrew Calhoun, was born in Rye, near Londonderry, Ireland, March 27, 1764. He came to America in 1790, settling first in Boston, and then removing to Rindge, N. H., and subsequently to the Valley of the Mohawk.
   After the death of his wife, in 1830, he returned again to Boston, and from thence to Concord, N. H., where he lived a number of years. He died April 14, 1842, aged 78 years. He had seven sons and two daughters, all of whom are living (January, 1855). Two sons and one daughter remained in Massachusetts, the rest reside in New York, Ohio, Illinois and Syria, Asia.
   His great-grandfather, whose name was William (as was his father's), went from Scotland to Ireland to enjoy religious peace; that he was a brother of David, James and John is not unlikely, also to the progenitor of the Kentucky Calhouns, as they must be nearly allied.
   The Kentucky Calhouns are nearly connected with the Massachusetts family, they arrived in this country about the period of the Revolution.
   John Calhoun (my grandfather) was a physician, much respected, and of extensive practice; he was born in 1738, and died in Washington, Connecticut, July 8, 1788, in the fiftieth year of his age.

January, 1855. GEORGE A. CALHOUN.

   HUGH¹ CALKIN b. 1600, at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, d. 1690 at Norwich, Ct., m. Ann ----. He emigrated to this country in 1638 with his wife and son John who was four years

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of age. He settled first at Green's Harbor (now Marshfield), Mass. He later removed to Gloucester with the Rev. Richard Blinman and others, and became one of the Board of Selectman. In 1650 he was chosen Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts Colony. He seems not to have remained long at Gloucester, as the Connecticut Colony Records, vol. 1, p. 230, record him as Deputy from New London. By order of the General Court, Oct. 3, 1654, Hugh and another man were appointed a committee for enlisting men to fight the Narragansett Indians. (vol. 1, p. 264). These records also state that he was a Deputy Magistrate. Hugh and his son John were among the original thirty-five proprietors' of Norwich, Ct. The records show that Hugh served as Deputy from Norwich to the General Court ten times. He was a deacon of the first church built in Norwich. Children of Hugh Calkin and Ann were:

   JOHN² CALKIN (Hugh¹) b. 16.34 in Wales, in. Sarah Royce at New London. Ct. She was born 1634 at New London, Ct., d. 1711.

   SAMUEL³ CALKIN (John,² Hugh¹) b. 1663.

   JOHN⁴ CALKIN (Samuel,³ John,² Hugh¹) b. 1692, d. Apr. 15, 1776, m. Sarah Elliott. He was a Revolutionary soldier, serving in Webster's regiment, New York militia. John Calkin and Sarah Elliott had twenty-one children.

   MOSES⁵ CALKIN (John,⁴ Samuel,³ John,² Hugh¹) b. Feby. 8, 1757, d. May 25, 1837, in Bradford county, Pa., m. abt. 1784 Thankful Stevens of Duanesburg, N. Y. She died July 3, 1837, and is buried beside her husband in Hilton cemetery, Bradford county, Pa. Moses Calkin spent his early life at Duanesburg, N. Y. He enlisted when a mere boy in the Revolutionary War, serving twelve months as a private and teamster. After his marriage, he removed to Sugar Creek, Bradford county, Pa., locating on a farm one-half mile west of the present West Bur-

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lington, Pa. He applied for a pension Dec. 11, 1832. His claim was allowed. Children of Moses Calkin and Thankful Stevens were:

   JOEL⁶ CALKIN (Moses,⁵ John,⁴ Samuel,³ John,² Hugh¹ ) b. Mch. 17, 1786, d. July 17, 1867, in Burlington, Pa., m. Apr. 2, 1807, Laura Leonard, b. June 16, 1786, in Springfield, Mass., d. Feby. 20, 1842.

   LYMAN LEONARD⁷ CALKIN (Joel,⁶ Moses, ⁵ John,⁴ Samuel,³ John,² Hugh¹ ) b. Nov. 27, 1811, near Burlington, Bradford county, Pa., d. Jany. 2, 1898, in Kahoka, Clark county, Missouri, m. Sept. 27, 1834, near Springfield, Bradford county, Pa., Zilphia Maria White, b. Oct. 1, 1813, near Springfield, Bradford county Pa., d. July 16, 1904, in Kahoka, Mo.

   NANCY MARIA⁸ CALKIN (Lyman Leonard,⁷ Joel,⁶ Moses,⁵

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